The Hill

Another office within the Department of Education is on the chopping block after a year of efforts to dismantle the federal agency, pushing the hope of restoring certain programs further out of reach for opponents. The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), which used to support English language learners, is the latest of dozens of programs that have been dismantled or relocated by the Education Department to fulfill President Trump’s campaign promise to shut down the agency. While opponents have not lost hope that the department can be rebuilt, the task grows more difficult by the day, with programs shuttered, thousands of employees fired, and some initiatives transferred to entirely different federal agencies.